Arundhati Roy Quotes

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

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Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.

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And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

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Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

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Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

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